Marvin Knopp

Marvin Isadore Knopp ( born January 4, 1933, Chicago, † December 24, 2011 in Boca Raton ) was an American mathematician who dealt with modular forms and their applications in analytical number theory.

Knopp studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign with a bachelor's degree in 1954 and a master's degree in 1955. He has been there his doctorate under Paul Bateman 1958 ( Construction of automorphic forms Certain of non -negative dimension). 1958/59 he was a research mathematician at the Space Tech Labs and 1959/60 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study (as well as several times afterwards, so in 1975, 1978, 1988). In 1960 he was Assistant Professor and later a professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. 1963/64, he worked as a research mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards. From 1970 he was professor at the University of Illinois (Chicago Circle ), and from 1976 at Temple University. There he was a colleague of Emil Gross Forest, with whom he worked.

He was in 1968/69 Visiting Professor at the University of Basel, 1988/89 at Bryn Mawr College, and in 1979 at the Ohio State University.

He dealt with automorphic forms and Eichlerkohomologie (after Martin Eichler ), uniformity and Riemann surfaces, modular forms in analytic number theory.

He was co-editor of the Ramanujan Journal.

He was married in 1957 and had four children. One of them is the pianist Seth Knopp.

Writings

• Bruce Berndt Hecke 's theory of modular forms and Dirichlet series, World Scientific 2008
• Modular functions in analytic number theory, American Mathematical Society 2008 ( First Chicago, Markham Publ, 1970)
• Theory of Area, Markham Publ, Chicago 1969